| 词汇 | barbarous |
| 释义 | barbarous adjective formaluk /ˈbɑː.bər.əs/ us /ˈbɑːr.bɚ.əs/ extremely cruel or unpleasant, or failing to reach acceptable social standards: 野蛮的;暴虐的;未开化的;粗野的 His murder was an outrageous and barbarous act.对他的谋杀是骇人听闻的野蛮行径。 How can they forgive such barbarous behaviour?他们怎么能原谅这样的野蛮行为？ Synonyms barbaric brutal callous cruel despotic hard(SEVERE) harsh(UNKIND) inhuman savage vicious Unkind, cruel & unfeeling acerbic acerbically acerbity acidly anti-cruelty cruel cruelly cruelty cruelty to someone/something cutthroat meanness mental cruelty merciless mercilessly mordant trenchant trenchantly uncharitable uncharitably unchristian barbarous | American Dictionarybarbarous adjective us/ˈbɑr·bə·rəs/ characteristic of people who have no experience of the habits and culture of modern life, and whose behavior you therefore consider strange Barbarous also means barbaric. Examples of barbarousbarbarous Like a true religion, the 'visible sign' triumphed over the world of 'wild and barbarous' dialects. There are usages which he describes variously as "regrettable" or "vulgar" or "barbarous" or "monstrosities". He concludes that 'far from being relics of a barbarous age', fairs were resilient and adaptable with important retail and social functions. His barbarous idols are horrific caricatures of the real thing. These virtues in a rude and barbarous society are almost unknown. But the former was just thought of as barbarous. First, there is the positing of an initial condition in which human societies are seen as rude and barbarous. Advocates of the indianesque embraced pre-conquest history as an essential component of independent identity, while conservatives rejected it as a barbarous time preceding the arrival of true civilisation. I have a feeling, however, that it may be an utterly revolting and barbarous usage to anyone like yourself who has a finer feeling for language than we have. Longs and shorts will not have to make those cruel concessions, those barbarous sacrifices of which composers and singers, it must be admitted, take so little notice. All of these refer to jahiliyya as a historical period except - chap. 6, para. 112 ("ignorant"), and chap. 7, para. 67 (translated "barbarous", but the historical reference is implicit). Were my informants trying to put the best possible face on a local practice likely to appear 'barbarous' to a foreign interlocutor and so much at odds with mainstream practice? This barbarous and, at the same time, grotesque regime must be contained. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We all repudiate the right of people to inflict barbarous and inhuman punishment on their own children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The diggers continued in their brutal and barbarous way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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